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Chris Mintz is being praised as a hero for his actions during Thursday’s Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, that left nine dead and seven seriously injured. The gunman was also killed in a shootout with police. When...

The man who killed black teen Trayvon Martin during a scuffle in Florida in 2012 claimed President Barack Obama has two things in common with the Oregon shooter: they are both of mixed race and both have killed Christians in the U.S. On Twitter,...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, one of the last remaining members of President Barack Obama’s original Cabinet, will step down in December, a White House official said on Friday. Obama has picked John B. King Jr., who currently acts...

A Michigan woman who worked as a topless dancer and was accused of participating in a plot to extort millions from a retired businessman in an upcoming trial has died mysteriously, the Detroit News reports. Jessica Tackett, 25, who was described...

A federal judge won’t stop an Alabama school district from punishing students with pepper spray for minor offenses, but he ordered school resource officers to come up with a new policy for using the nonlethal devices. U.S. District Court...

A veteran who says he was carrying a concealed weapon on Oregon’s Umpqua Community College campus Thursday when 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer went on a murderous rampage, says he didn’t intervene because he knew police SWAT...

A police search of Virginia Commonwealth University on Friday turned up no gunman after the school issued an alert that a possible armed person had been sighted on campus, university officials said. The incident occurred a day after day after a...

This will come as little surprise to my colleague, Jane Martinson, but a survey of more than 2,000 US newspapers, magazines and websites has found that five of six names in news coverage were men. It underlines research led by Jane for Women in...

A killer who was accidentally released from jail last week in Louisiana has been captured in Georgia, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday. Benjueil Johnson, 32, was arrested at a motel in the Atlanta suburb of Norcross just after midnight,...

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s campaign messaging highlights his passion for hunting and his ties to the state’s popular Republican governor. But the prosecutor sometimes called the “last Democrat in Dixie”...

The 26-year-old suspect who fatally shot at least 10 people Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon has been linked by various media outlets to a blog post about another gunman. The email address associated with Chris...

The Oregon sheriff investigating the execution-style killing of at least nine people in a college classroom refused to identify the suspect on Friday, saying he wanted to deny the shooter notoriety, the ultimate prize he sought in the bloodshed....

Regardless of whether you believe in gun control, there is a widespread belief that mental illness is behind mass shootings. After all, who but a crazy person would start killing people, as happened Thursday at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College?...

A conservative radio host linked to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said white people only make racist comments when they see black people. Michael Berry, a former Houston city councilman and the husband of a former Texas secretary of state, told a black...

U.S. Postal inspectors are investigating postcards being sent to Hispanic-owned businesses in Milwaukee, blaming recent immigrants for the death of Katie Steinle. According to CBS58, local Hispanic businesses along with union headquarters have...